[DawnFalcon]

Originally Posted by guyanonymous

I much preferred this Joe Konrath blog... http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/01/booty-call.html (a sub-link from the one posted above). He, essentially, summed up most of my beliefs.

Nice. I have to look his books up.

Oh and @Stross: "(book publishing is notoriously, uniquely unprofitable, within the media world)"

You've just shown your ignorance about the economics of games there. (A MUCH higher percentage of books break even than games, for starters...)


"do you really think I'd get better terms out of Amazon than a huge publishing conglomerate?"

Yep. And you only think badly of it because you made the choice to surrender exclusive rights. I know a few authors who didn't, and their laughter is scary to behold.